In a chance encounter at a New Orleans game show, Myrtle Kane and Jeb Thornton meet and are chosen as contestants, mistakenly portrayed as a happy engaged couple. To win a $3,500 cash prize, they agree to get married on air. Myrtle, a former band member, views this as her next big adventure, while Jeb hopes to use the money to restore his family's rundown plantation, Waverley, to its former glory.
The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
A game show win transports a couple to New Orleans, where the husband's quest to reclaim his family's ancestral plantation mansion from his biracial stepbrother unfolds.